Example sentences of "[vb base] because the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it is a symmetric arms race because the nature of the success and failure on the two sides is the same : attainment of sunlight and being overshadowed , respectively . |
| 2 | And you know I went into that film it was just being launched in America , and there was a sort of prologue to the film and er I did n't know whether to , to become terribly angry or , or just about cry because the prologue was as if Britain was a sinking ship you know , this was the last we would see of this great thing and they made the most of it you know , like er i the g the film was the old private schools you know the old w well the public schools in England . |
| 3 | ‘ This situation has meant me not being able to get the sort of access to my daughter I want because the fact that the interdict is still in place has been used to prevent me from getting increased access . ’ |
| 4 | Allison was among many who were convinced that the Welshman had been denied the 60metres hurdles crown because the race starter , Toronto property manager Ron Bell , had let local hero Mark McKoy get away with a ‘ flyer ’ . |
| 5 | In a new pool they often die because the water has not matured and there is insufficient debris on the pool floor in which they can make their home . |
| 6 | In bit-image mode the ninth pin on the print head ( Figure 4.2 ) is not usually used so eight vertical pins plus the gap between the bottom pin on line i and the top pin on line i + 1 will occupy inch because the spacing between pins is inch . |
| 7 | Unfortunately this theory does not stand up too well either– because the mountain zebra comes from the cooler south and yet has vivid stripes . |
| 8 | I think had we managed to stick it together a bit longer , all fifty of us , and just prove to the management that we were n't gon na be starved back to work which seemed to be the way they wanted us to go back , you know because the board had you know escalated , you know I think had we managed to stick it together , certainly the result would 've been different . |
| 9 | it had sort of round shade with a bulb and the bu but it looked like an eye you know because the bulb came out and you moved these three things around , you can still buy them now , but er , then they were a bit way out . |
| 10 | Yes that 's right er I er believe in fact I know because the Duke says so in the Racing Post today the reason he 's gone there is to get Adrian Maguire because Adrian has ridden him already in Ireland and the owner wanting to stick with Maguire which you ca n't blame him for |
| 11 | That we know because the room was cleaned at lunch-time and the cleaner actually switched on the light to help her see the condition of the table she was polishing . ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps she thought of turning on the car lights , but decided not to ; it would waste time , and it would n't be much use because the car was angled away from the fire escape . |
| 13 | If surprise were a central system function then we would not , indeed , blink because the blink would be controlled by our knowledge of a friend 's good nature . |
| 14 | Recessions often start because the demand for credit falls . |
| 15 | The cities of the west only exist because the railway came through there . |
| 16 | Verbal presentations often fail because the speaker tries to cram too much into too short a time , or goes on for far too long . |
| 17 | However , as many overseas assignments fail because the wife or family are unable to cope with the new way of life and culture ( around 50 per cent is often quoted ) , many organisations choose to invite the wives of short-listed candidates into the company to discuss the assignment and any problems that may be worrying them . |
| 18 | Up-gradings often fail because the job description does not match actual work . |
| 19 | At first it seems plausible that admissible algorithms such as A* fail because the score of incoming speech h* ( n ) , is hard to estimate . |
| 20 | Perhaps they arise because the government does not recognize the true costs of its new policies , or perhaps because of a resistance to making a particular policy effective which comes from within the central government machine . |
| 21 | Special difficulties arise because the structure of space–time becomes quantized . |
| 22 | The Countryside Commission , the government 's advisory body , has similar feelings and in its report , Planning for a Greener Countryside , comments that ‘ problems often arise because the development is inappropriate for the proposed site … imposed on the countryside rather than being a part of it ’ . |
| 23 | Structural models of hemisphere specialisation which posit that perceptual asymmetries arise because the brain structures that deal with a particular class of stimuli are lateralised exclusively or predominantly to one hemisphere rather than the other can not cope with this variability . |
| 24 | Aerotow problems usually arise because the pilot ignores the possibility of something going wrong and is caught by surprise . |
| 25 | The physical librations arise because the path of the Moon around the Earth is not perfectly circular . |
| 26 | These arise because the symmetry of the free molecule is reduced to that of the environment , which must be very low in the case of a random glassy solid , and may be low even in a crystalline sample . |
| 27 | It was I think because the powder was er pushed by the , the er company in Third World hospitals , and when the mothers went out they had n't got safe water to mix it with . |
| 28 | It will only happen if you do because the credibility |
| 29 | A woman spends many years charring in Cremona ; she saves all her money to buy an apartment for her son when he gets married ; her no-good husband , the boy 's father , reappears after years and demands assistance ; she refuses ; when the son is engaged , she relents and negotiates subsidies to her ex-husband , for a suit , a car , a wedding-present ; she organizes a big reception to which she invites all her former employers ; nobody comes except a tennis-star ; there is no sign of the husband ; her lawyer tells her that the girl her son is marrying is her husband 's mistress and that he had already taken over the apartment ; she reflects a moment and decides to carry on with the reception , everything is all right , ‘ if no one notices anything , it is as though nothing has happened ’ ; passers-by are invited to join the wedding-party , which they happily do because the tennis-star is present ; the husband turns up in his new car ; no one takes any notice of him because no one knows who he is , except for the dealer he sometimes does jobs for , who tells him all new cars lose half their value as soon as they are bought and end up on the scrapheap anyway . |
| 30 | Sometimes we fight because the enemy 's too strong , sometimes because he is n't strong enough . |